[R] Graphics output device

[Michael Lapsley]

Dear developers,

I wonder would you consider making a save to a graphics file format (as opposed
to ps)?

What prompts this is that we have just finished my wife's thesis using R
heavily for stats and graphs.  The combination of latex, bibtex and R generated
.eps worked a treat and we were very pleased with both the final outcome and
the efficiency of gernerating it, especially when all the graphs were produced
in batch from scripts.

The experience of preparing a Powerpoint talk from the same material was much
less satisfactory, however.  It was positively painful converting eps files
into png or whatever with scaling difficult to control, and, worst of all, I
never succeeded in getting the colours to display properly:  white backgrounds
turned out a peculiar transparent dirty kahki colour. (I think this must be a
ghostscript bug, but one that I have only ever seen tickled by R).  In the end
I captured them one at a time with xv and the mouse grab.

Apart from being a real pain I'm mulling over a project that would have
dynamically generated graphs displayed on a web page:  mouse capture clearly is
out!  Would saving graphs in pnm or some other convertable format be difficult?
(Or perhaps there is a package that I have not noticed?)

Regards,

Michael Lapsley
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E-Mail: Michael Lapsley <mlapsley at ndirect.co.uk>
Date: 01-Oct-99
Time: 00:13:26

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